STA2ABS: Applied Biostatistics

This is quite similar to the Programming Test, however it's only worth 10% and you are given this about a month before it's due.

Is held in the Week 10 Computer Lab. You are given a booklet of questions which you must provide written solutions to them using the statistical package R.

Consists of short response questions - they are essentially questions taken from lectures/practice classes/assignments with numbers/words changed around. If you know your content then you should be fine.

Each assignment is approximately 4-5 pages in length and each contribute 5% to this mark. Assignments examine a 3-4 week block of content. Really not much to say about this.

I found that this subject was essentially a repetition of STA1LS/STA1SS (see my review in this thread) with a few extra topics involved, and the topics covered from STA1LS/STA1SS were progressed to an intermediate level.

The four assignments and other assessment were spread out very nicely - you had about 2-3 weeks to do each assignment, which was a nice change from a new one every week (last semester). There's a very high emphasis on knowing 'R' (a statistical computing package) and how to write code in it - you could say that there's a bit of CS in it.
The exam as I said in the assessments section were basically questions from assignments/lecture examples/practice classes with numbers/words changed. You are also allowed 2 pages of A4 notes (double sided) into the exam as well - which is always a bonus as the content you learn is very broad and there's

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Dr Agus Salim

Not *really* - there were practice questions though.

3.5/5

Not essential - I never used it, however it's the written published text that the uni provides. You can purchase this from the bookshop.

2 x 1 hour lectures
1 x 1 hour computer lab
1 x 1 hour practice class

2014 Semester 1

77 (B)